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Dropbox's hiring practices explain its disappointing​ lack of female employees (linkedin.com)

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Dropbox's hiring practices explain its disappointing​ lack of female employees (linkedin.com)
The Poisonous Employee-Ranking System That Helps Explain Microsoft’s Decline (slate.com)
PLOS Biology: Best Practices for Scientific Computing (plosbiology.org)
Worst practices are viral for the wrong reasons (haskellforall.com)
How Microsoft dragged its development practices into the 21st century (arstechnica.com)
Software Engineering Principles and Practices Exam Specifications (cdn.ncees.org)
Topics and Section descriptions for the NCEES Software Engineering [PE Exam](http://ncees.org/exams/pe-exam/). I'm just learning about this. As I understand it, it is currently being used to formally license Software Engineers in the US. The methodology is described in this (paywalled) paper from...
Dropbox starts using POST, and why this is poor API design. (evertpot.com)
Code review best practices (glen.nu)
This is really, really good. I shoot for the top 10-20% of code reviewers/review turnaround time wherever I'm at. Unfortunately you can't really measure it, at least when you're hiring or looking for a new position. (although maybe... you could set up webhooks w/ github to publish data on turnaro...
“...no one can hack my mind”: Comparing Expert and Non-Expert Security Practices (usenix.org)
Database versioning best practices (enterprisecraftsmanship.com)
Best practices for a new Go developer (medium.com)
How People Come to Believe That Completely Messed Up Practices Are Normal (danluu.com)
"Real Options" Underlie Agile Practices (2007) (infoq.com)
Since "derivatives" came up in another post on Conceptual debt, I thought I'd put this here. There's been a fair amount of work in this area, though I've not kept up.
What popular "best practices" are not always best, and why? (2010) (programmers.stackexchange.com)
Worst practices should be hard (haskellforall.com)
Go best practices, six years in (peter.bourgon.org)
Infinite Scrolling Best Practices (uxplanet.org)
Don't do infinite scrolling on a web site, but if you have to, these are some good guidelines. Mobile infinite scrolling is more useful, so follow the guidelines here.
Continuous Improvement Practices  - Part #2  (medium.com)
Beyond PEP 8 -- Best practices for beautiful intelligible code (youtube.com)
A curated list of totally awesome comments about practices (danluu.com)
I may have edited the title a little. There's some meta commentary too, but I thought just the comments make a good read.
How would you explain that devs aren't machinary, from a business perspective?
tl,dr; green exec has the mental model of developers as machines in a factory. How to correct? Longer version: Exec in question is part of a young startup and is still wet-behind-the-ears. In discussion about why they want continuous delivery (don't ask), they insisted that having open PRs ...
Best practices – AWS Lambda function (cloudncode.blog)
Best Practices vs Witch Hunts (accu.org)
Best Practices for Long Scrolling (blogs.adobe.com)
My Logging Practices (monotonically-unstable.github.io)
Good enough practices in scientific computing (journals.plos.org)
Game Development and Application Development Best Practices - Not As Different As You Might Think (benlakey.com)
Best Practices for Large Features (drivy.engineering)
Podcast interview about trying to reboot business practices (betonyourself.com)
I'm a Ruby developer and author with a few products for sale. My product business pretty much went dormant as I gave up some of my writing habits. This interview is about how I tried to get back to building it up again. I've got 4 kids and life is getting busier by the day so I thought people here ...
Microservice architecture best practices from tech leaders (codingsans.com)